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In the News (Sat 2 Jun 12)

  
  Cristina Teuscher Is Named Top Woman College Athlete
Cristina Teuscher, already the finest women's swimmer and one of the most accomplished student-athletes in Ivy League history, was awarded the Honda-Broderick Cup as the nation's outstanding collegiate woman athlete.
Teuscher won NCAA championships in March in the 400-meter freestyle (4:04.09) and the 400-meter individual medley (4:33.81), each the second-fastest times in the world this year.
In addition to Teuscher and her fellow Honda Division I award winners, Honda Awards were presented to the Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year for Division II schools, Jayne Even of North Dakota State, and the Division III winner, Alia Fischer of Washington (MO) University.
www.columbia.edu /cu/pr/00/06/teuscher.html   (545 words)

  
 Women's Sports Foundation ATHLETES
Cristina Teuscher is a 2000 Olympic bronze medalist (200m individual medley), a 1996 Olympic gold medalist (800m freestyle relay) and six-time national champion (1999, 800m freestyle; 1998, 400m freestyle, 200m individual medley; 1997, 200m freestyle; 1995, 200m freesyle; 1994, 200m freestyle).
At the 1999 Pan Pacific Championships, Teuscher won a gold medal in the 4x200m freestyle relay and silver and bronze medals in the 200m individual medley and 400m individual medley, respectively.
Teuscher also captured a silver medal in the 200m freestyle at the 1995 Pan Pacific Championships.
www.womenssportsfoundation.org /cgi-bin/iowa/athletes/record.html?record=883   (201 words)

  
 Ivy League Sports
Cristina Teuscher '00 is renowned for being one of the top student-athletes in Ivy League history.
Teuscher is now interning at the Robin Hood Foundation in New York City.
Teuscher is an assistant to the managing director of the relief fund.
www.ivyleaguesports.com /documents/teuscherngwsd.asp   (260 words)

  
 Columbia College Today
Funds from the endowment, for which $305,000 had been raised at the time of the banquet according to John Reeves, director of physical education and intercollegiate athletics, will be used to enhance the quality of the experience for women's sports participants at Columbia, with 10 percent dedicated to the women's swimming and diving program.
Among those on hand to celebrate Teuscher, the most decorated athlete in Columbia history and the holder of 17 Lions swimming records, were her family, her coaches and many of her teammates.
In her remarks, Teuscher cited the supportive atmosphere she found at Columbia and the way she was able to grow, in and out of the swimming pool.
www.college.columbia.edu /cct/may01/may01_profile_teuscher.html   (581 words)

  
 Untitled   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Cristina Teuscher is an Olympic Gold Medalist, a six-time National titlist, and a two-time U.S. World Championship team member.
In the spring of 2000, Cristina won the Honda Award as the female college scholar-athlete of the year, and she graduated from Columbia University in May. She is continuing to train in preparation for the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia.
Cristina has been able to remain at the top of the sport in large part because of her sharp competitive instincts and a work ethic that few can match.
www.badgersc.com /2000_ct.htm   (399 words)

  
 Columbia College Today
Indisputably the greatest swimmer in Columbia’s history, Teuscher became not only the first Columbia athlete but the first Ivy League athlete ever to win the Honda-Broderick Cup, presented at the 24th annual Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year Dinner in Orlando, Fla. Teuscher was stunned by her victory.
Since coming to Columbia in 1996, with a gold medal from the Atlanta Olympics already in her trophy case, she has set 10 school records and four relay records, was named Swimmer of the Meet at the Ivy League championship four years in a row, and perhaps most impressively, never lost an individual race.
Teuscher, a psychology major with a 3.4 GPA, did not rest at the season’s close, or even after graduating in May. Instead, she began the pursuit of her second Olympic gold medal.
www.college.columbia.edu /cct/sep00/sep00_cover_teuscher.html   (1014 words)

  
 Teuscher sets two records at USA Challenge - Netcenter Sports Channel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Teuscher, 20, won the 200-meter freestyle in 2 minutes,.73 seconds, and the 400 individual medley in 4:44.85.
Teuscher, who won four NCAA championships while at Columbia, easily bettered the required times of 2:04.89 in the 200 and 4:57.79 in the 400 to qualify for the Olympic Trials in Indianapolis, held Aug. 9-16.
Teuscher, a gold medalist in the 800 freestyle relay in the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, has her sights set on another gold in the upcoming games in Australia.
ww1.sportsline.com /ns/ce/multi/0,1511,2576798,00.html   (310 words)

  
 Ivy League Sports - Ivies in Athens 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Teuscher claimed her precious medal when she raced the second leg of the 4x200 meter freestyle relay.
With Germany in the lead, Teuscher, who was still an undergrad at Columbia, turned in a 1:58.86 to vault the United States into the lead.
Teuscher went on to be named the NCAA Athlete of the Year in 2000 and claimed a bronze medal at the Sydney Olympics later that year.
www.iviesinathens.com /olympic/games.aspx?ID=126   (401 words)

  
 USA Swimming - Role of the Parent Articles
Teuscher, mother of Cristina, a 1996 and 2000 Olympian, never owned a stopwatch and rarely bought a meet program.
During swim meets, she went off by herself to read or knit, only to be amused when other parents gave her a rundown on Cristina's swims, complete with split times.
Most coaches would agree that the best team to coach is one filled with parents such as Teuscher, who recognize the line between parenting and coaching and avoid it as if it were radioactive.
www.usaswimming.org /USASWeb/ViewMiscArticle.aspx?TabId=440&Alias=Rainbow&Lang=en-US&mid=692&ItemId=683   (1696 words)

  
 Christina Teuscher Has Had Quite an Olympic Experience
t was quite an Olympics for 18-year-old Cristina Teuscher of New Rochelle, N.Y. She was seen on national television spot announcements proclaiming, "I'm really proud to represent my country." She had the president of the United States put a congratulatory arm around her.
"She was a little bit unnerved in that first final," said John Collins, Teuscher's coach from the Badger Swim Club in Larchmont, N.Y., who was on hand to see a third pupil of his win a gold medal over the last four Olympics.
Teuscher started her second leg of the relay a body length and a half behind her first-place German rival.
www.nytimes.com /specials/olympics/0804/oly-swm-teuscher-profile.html   (641 words)

  
 Active.com - World Class Workouts 4: Try the 'Grand Prix' with Olympian Cristina Teuscher
Cristina Teuscher has certainly swum her share of challenging workouts, and they have paid off for her.
A gold medalist in the 800-meter free relay at the 1996 Olympic Games (and a bronze medalist in the 2000 Games in the 200-meter individual medley), she is one of the world?s most versatile and well-rounded swimmers.
Cristina Teuscher on her way to victory at the 1998 National Championships
www.active.com /story.cfm?story_id=8751&sidebar=14&category=swimming   (454 words)

  
 Collins to coach at World Championships
NEW YORK — Fourteen-year-old Cristina Teuscher walked into swim practice at 5:30 a.m., an ungodly hour for many teenagers to be up, let alone swimming.
Teuscher took it seriously, realizing that in order for her to be the best, she had to beat Evans.
For Teuscher, a 1996 Olympic gold medalist in the 800 freestyle relay, and holder of numerous national and NCAA titles, it was just one of Collins' motivational tactics that made him a special coach and the right coach for her.
www.thejournalnews.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060401/SPORTS01/604010377/1108/SPORTS01   (828 words)

  
 Evans earns third straight trip to Olympics: 3/09/96
Evans trailed Cristina Teuscher throughout the race before pulling away to victory with 30 meters remaining.
Teuscher is also anti-drug, and she lost a gold medal in the 400 free in the 1994 World Championships to a Chinese swimmer later banned for a positive drug test.
Teuscher and Jackson already are on the Olympic team after finishing 1-2 in the 200 freestyle Thursday.
www.southcoasttoday.com /daily/03-96/03-09-96/5evans.htm   (548 words)

  
 CNNSI.com - Inside Game - Brian Cazeneuve - SI's Brian Cazeneuve: Teuscher takes unusual route back to Olympics - ...
After taking in a dissertation on the cantaloupe, Teuscher sprang for some chocolate chip cookies at one of two newsstands on an adjacent block, dodged a doddering, wobbly gentleman who had just come in from a brewery, and searched for a token.
Teuscher graduated from Columbia with a degree in psychology this spring.
When Teuscher's boyfriend, a Columbia soccer player, was in attendance at her meets, the school p.a.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /inside_game/cazeneuve/news/2000/08/13/cazeneuve_insider   (875 words)

  
 Swimming World Magazine: The New York Girl, October 1998   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Cristina didn't even realize what mattered most to her until she began taking recruiting trips around the country during her senior year in high school.
Teuscher first made her mark at the 1994 spring nationals where she unexpectedly won the 200 meter freestyle and placed second in the 400, claiming a spot on the U.S. World Championship team.
At summer nationals, Cristina continued her hot swimming, winning the 200 IM in the world's third fastest time this year (behind two Chinese), taking the 400 free in her fastest time in four years, and finishing second in the 200 free and 400 IM.
www.swimmingworldmagazine.com /articles/swimmingworld/articles/199810-01sw_art.asp   (1517 words)

  
 Columbia News ::: Columbia's All America Swimmer Cristina Teuscher Wins Honda Award   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
A resident of New Rochelle, NY, Teuscher is a senior in Columbia College, majoring in psychology.
Teuscher recently won two NCAA swimming titles, giving her four for her career and making her the finest women's swimmer in Ivy League history.
Teuscher is the first Ivy Leaguer ever to win a Honda Award for swimming.
www.columbia.edu /cu/news/00/04/hondaAward.html   (203 words)

  
 For Teuscher, it's the circle of life
Teuscher had gone from an investment firm in London to giving swim tours around European lakes to taking care of her grandmother in Argentina to being back in her hometown, working at her old swim club, with her old coach.
All that training, all that travel, all to return to the same place she was at 15 years ago.
Teuscher remembers swimming harder, listening more attentively, when she got regular encouragement.
www.thejournalnews.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060209/SPORTS01/602090384/1108   (1352 words)

  
 Honda Awards, Swimming & Diving
Teuscher, a senior at Columbia University, is the NCAA champion in the 400-meter freestyle (4:04.9) and 400-meter individual medley (4:33.81, fastest in the world this year).
Teuscher never lost an individual race in her four years at Columbia and was the Ivy League champion in the 200-IM and 400-IM, as well as the 100 free, in which she set a school record.
She is a 1996 Olympic gold medallist in the 800-meter relay, and is currently in training for the 2000 Olympics at Sydney.
awards.honda.com /index.aspx?p=10&year=2000   (163 words)

  
 ESPN.com - OLY - Malchow goes for second Olympic berth
Cristina Teuscher is shifting her focus from the 200 freestyle to the 200 individual medley.
Cristina Teuscher, who made the team in the 200 free four years ago, is focusing on the 200 individual medley this time.
Although she swam in the 200 free prelims and likely would've advanced to the final, she dropped out because both events are on Saturday.
espn.go.com /oly/s/2000/0811/679943.html   (536 words)

  
 News Story: Full Text
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - Columbia's Cristina Teuscher, the NCAA swimming champion whose times in the 400-meter freestyle and individual medley were the second-fastest in the world this year, won the Honda-Broderick Cup as the nation's outstanding collegiate woman athlete.
Teuscher was honored Monday night at the 24th annual Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year dinner.
Teuscher also was the Outstanding Swimmer of the Ivy League Championships for the fourth consecutive year, and holds 10 of 14 school individual records and four relay team records.
www.virtualtrials.com /news3.cfm?item=170&showtext=y   (379 words)

  
 Newswire story   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Teuscher has been a member of the past two United States Olympic swimming teams, serving as co-captain of the 2000 Sydney team.
Teuscher is one of the most highly decorated collegiate swimmers of all-time, winning the prestigious Honda-Broderick Cup as the nation's most outstanding college woman athlete of 2000.
Olympic swimmer Dara Torres was originally scheduled to attend Rider's celebration this year, but a change in her television responsibilities with NBC forced her to withdraw.
www.rider.edu /news/newswire/spring2001/tueschler.htm   (308 words)

  
 TCM Breaking News - 2001/07/26: Swimming: US kick up stink over British gold
Cristina Teuscher has vehemently protested her innocence after her 'mistake' led to the US team's disqualification from the 800metres relay and resulted in Great Britain claiming the gold.
Racing at number two in the US relay team, Teuscher was accused by FINA referees of leaving the blocks a fraction too soon, before her team-mate had hit the touchpad on the wall.
Britain, which finished a distant third, found themselves in gold position and accepted the medal almost 24 hours and dozens of appeals and protests after the race was run.
archives.tcm.ie /breakingnews/2001/07/26/story19265.asp   (452 words)

  
 As good as gold | Mar 27, 1998   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Cristina Teuscher '00 set a school and pool record in the 500-yard freestyle at the NCAA Women's Swimming Championships hosted by the University of Minnesota.
Her time of 4:35.45 was just 1.06 seconds short of the American and NCAA record time set by former Stanford star Janet Evans.
Like Evans, Teuscher is an Olympian, having won a gold medal in the 4x200 meter free relay at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.
www.yaleherald.com /archive/xxv/3.27.98/sports/gold.html   (81 words)

  
 USA WEEKEND Magazine
The zone is a place where Teuscher can clear her mind of all negative obstacles, ignore even physical pain.
For Teuscher, excellence in the pool is all about willing herself to calm down rather than rev up for an event.
And Teuscher is a known workhorse: She not only graduated from Columbia University this past May on time (she started college right after the Atlanta Games), but she also amassed an impressive college record: four NCAA championships, and in her senior year, earning the prestigious Honda-Broderick Cup as the nation's best female collegiate athlete.
www.usaweekend.com /00_issues/000910/000910olympic.html   (2209 words)

  
 PLUS: SWIMMING -- HONDA AWARD; Women's Award Given to Teuscher - New York Times
Cristina Teuscher of Columbia University, who swam the fastest 400-meter individual medley in the world this year, has been voted the Honda Award as the nation's top collegiate female swimmer.
Teuscher, a senior from New Rochelle, N.Y., is the National Collegiate Athletic Association champion in the 400-meter freestyle, which she won in 4 minutes 4.9 seconds, and the 400-meter individual medley (4:33.81).
The holder of 10 of 14 school individual records and four relay team marks, Teuscher never lost an individual race in her four-year college career.
query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE1D9123FF935A35757C0A9669C8B63   (177 words)

  
 Sydney Glance: Day 5
Tom Malchow, St. Paul, Minn., won the gold in the 200-meter butterfly, swimming an Olympic record time of 1 minute, 55.35 seconds in giving the U.S. team its sixth gold medal.
Cristina Teuscher, New Rochelle, N.Y., won the bronze in the 200-meter individual medley.
A total of 15 gold medals were scheduled for Tuesday and 18 for Wednesday.
deseretnews.com /sydney/view/1,3466,195014995,00.html   (396 words)

  
 Augusta Georgia: sports@ugusta: American swimmers victorious 07/31/98
Then she remembered how grueling, and successful, Cristina Teuscher's night had been.
But Thompson said the real hero was Teuscher, who won the 800 and 400 freestyles and swam an outstanding third leg on the final relay.
Sylvia Bereknyei of Pittsburgh, Calif., maintained a half-second edge over Nadezhda Chemezova of Russia before Teuscher completed her grueling night by extending the margin to 1.3 seconds over Wilma Van Hofwegen of the Netherlands.
chronicle.augusta.com /stories/073198/spo_124-6770.shtml   (798 words)

  
 Honda Awards, Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year
Cristina Teuscher, a swimmer from Columbia University, took home top honors during the annual Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year banquet in Orlando, Florida, on June 12.
Cristina was voted the Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year by over 900 NCAA-member schools.
We congratulate Cristina and the rest of the Honda Award winners on all they have accomplished.
awards.honda.com /index.aspx?p=1&year=2000   (103 words)

  
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At Harvard Sports, we believe every sports-related event should be a combination of athletics and touring, combining what the event itself has to offer with the surrounding environment.
Cristina is a gold medal winning world record holder.
Her event is in the South of France in a great facility combining great training and competition facilities with touring and sightseeing.
www.soccertours.com /camps   (226 words)

  
 Ivy League Sports
Cristina Teuscher, who graduated in May of 2000, is renowned for being one of the top student-athletes in Ivy League history.
She was also awarded the prestigious Honda Broderick Cup which recognizes the best collegiate female athlete in the United States.
We recently caught up with Cristina to see what she's been up to.
www.ivyleaguesports.com /article.asp?intID=1378&method=text   (928 words)

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